arXiv:2603. 18540v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing complexity of neural networks poses significant challenges for democratizing federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge devices.
Ampere is a new split federated learning system that reduces both on‑device computation and device‑server communication while improving accuracy. It trains device and server blocks sequentially with local losses, eliminating gradient transfers, and uses a lightweight auxiliary network to consolidate activations into a single transfer. Experiments on CNNs and Transformers show up to 11.70 pp accuracy gains, 18.6× faster training, 911× less communication, and 14.5× less computation compared to state‑of‑the‑art SFL baselines.
arXiv:2608. 03324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while strictly preserving data privacy.
arXiv:2608. 15639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \textit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients.
\textit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients. However, under client heterogeneity, the conventional static split stra...
FedSAP is a federated learning framework that addresses heterogeneous edge devices by using structured pruning as a budget-constrained tri-state channel allocation. It partitions model channels into a Global pool, pseudo-domain-specific Private pools, and a Dropped state, allowing broadly useful features to be shared while isolating domain-sensitive updates. Experiments on Digits and Office-Caltech datasets show FedSAP achieving higher mean global accuracy than the strongest baseline while supporting up to 80% client pruning ratios.
arXiv:2609.39074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) on memory-constrained edge devices faces a dilemma: first-order (FO) optimization (i.e., backpropagation) demands substantial...
arXiv:2607. 08013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) empowers multiple clients to collaboratively learn a model, enlarging the training data of each client for high accuracy while protecting data privacy.
FlexP-SFT introduces an aggregation-free framework for personalized split federated fine-tuning of large language models, eliminating the client-side aggregation step that traditionally causes communication bottlenecks and straggler issues. The method employs a layer‑flexible alignment strategy to balance personalization and generalization without global synchronization, and formulates split‑ratio selection as a resource‑aware discrete optimization problem. Experiments demonstrate that FlexP-SFT improves both accuracy and latency compared to baselines, achieving a superior resource‑accuracy trade‑off.
arXiv:2607. 17913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed Fine-Tuning (DFT) of large-scale Foundation Models (FMs) on resource-constrained edge devices is limited by local compute constraints and communication overhead.
arXiv:2608. 15516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in multimodal understanding and generation.
arXiv:2506. 14126v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep learning is increasingly characterized by the use of open-weight foundation models that can be fine-tuned on specialized datasets.